Restaurante La Raíz — Restaurant in Gaucín

Absolutely the BEST and the MOST reasonable priced food we had in the village.

Bizarrely this wasn’t one of the recommendations for us, but I walked in today for lunch and 0 regrets.

There is a menu in English and one of the staff is fluent. We have dietary restrictions so it’s important that we can communicate.

We walked in about 2pm for lunch, bizarrely empty so we’re sceptical but thank god we did.

We ordered 4 starters, a salad and a main. We only drink water so can’t comment on the drinks menu.

We were served some lovely olives (only one other place did this - which I find bizarre), olive oil and bread. Annoyingly we didn’t take photos.

For starters we had

1. chicken and veg croquettes
2. padron peppers
3. beef carpaccio
4. goats cheese salad

Main was beef entrecôte served with few veg and chips.

The service was fast, and everything was freshly cooked. The goats cheese salad actually had salad with it (not just rocket garnish). Carpaccio was lovely, one of our favourites back home. Only criticism is it had peanuts on it (never experienced that before) so anyone with allergy be aware I wouldn’t have thought to mention it. Pardon peppers were served with home made hand cut fries absolutely gorgeous. The croquettes were nice (chicken better than veg IMO) but wouldn’t order again.

The main. OH THE MAIN!!!!! The best steak we had so far. We have ours rare and never in Spain (so far) has it been cooked to perfection nor the quality has been matched. They serve it with a hot plate but we didn’t need it as it was perfect.

And best of all I think this was the CHEAPEST meal we had at €68. That includes 2 large bottles of still and sparkling water. Sadly no room for dessert.

Please go and eat there they really deserve the custom. Annoyingly it was our last day here (we leave tomorrow morning) but contemplating going back for dinner.

Thank for a...

Excellent service from a kind and considerate host. On arrival we were advised that the table we had chosen l was due to be in the sun midday sun and offered an alternative table in the shade. Later when choosing a 500g T bone steak to share we were advised some of the starters (Octopus) were perhaps a little generous if accompanied by a large steak. So we opted for goats cheese salad and pil pil prawns. The local wine suggested to pair with the Steak was a lushous and full bodied red from near by Ronda. We remarked that it was the best steak we had enjoyed in recent memory and that compliment really does not do justice to the excellent preparation and presentation of quality locally sourced ingredients delivered to us by the chef. I really recommend this restaurant for a visit...

Reviews are pretty awesome, but unfortunately I was pretty underwhelmed with the whole experience. The terrace is beautifully situated, with a pretty view from above of the terrace of another cafe. If only the food and service were better, it would have been a nice experience. We had some platters to share as a starter, salmon for mains, and a chocolate dessert and apple crumble for dessert. The shrimps in the starter were overcooked, the salmon was dry. The salad missed a punch and seemed nothing more than a mixed salad from the carrefour. The applecrumble was nice, but nothing special. Overall I left disappointed. The pictures show the view from the terrace, the shrimps...